IThera020

Findspot and Location

  • Country: Greece
  • Region: Santorini
  • Settlement: Ancient Thera
  • Repository: Archaeological site of Ancient Thera

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

The graffito is located to the northwest, outside the western wall of the enclosed area.

Layout

The graffito consists of two upright lines.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon (a): vertical stroke not protruding, with horizontal bars. Epsilon (b): vertical stroke protruding, with oblique bars. Theta: with internal crossbars. Rho (a): rounded strokes. Rho (b): rigid bowl.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:5th century BCE (a); 6th century BCE (b).

Findspot:«Intra aedificium perantiquum, quod prope Apollinis Carnei templum meridiem fere versus situm est». Hiller, Suppl. p. 86

Coordinates:36.36198, 25.48044

Last recorded location: Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ

Edition


a
[- - -]ΕΡ[- - -]Τ[- - -]

b
ΘΕΡ[- - -]

Apparatus


a
Hiller: Φερετίμας

b
Hiller: Θερός

Commentary

The inscription consists of two orthogonal lines and is located north-northwest, external to the western wall of the fenced area. The rock formations in this external area show various incisions that are cut more sharply and regularly if compared to the other rock panels inside the fenced area. Most of these graffiti are attributed to the archaic period. The graffiti on the western side are mostly datable to the second half of the 6th century BCE, based on palaeography. The epigraphic field measures 0.75 x 1.70 m. The inscription is close to another inscription (n. 375) and features two names: Φερετίμας (a personal name) in line 1 and Θερός in line 2. Hiller’s reading suggests that Φερετίμας is from the first half of the 5th century BCE, while the second inscription, Θερός, is possibly older, with paleographic features suggesting a date from the 6th century BCE. Hiller notes the possible identification of Θερός with a mythical or religious figure, possibly connected with the Centaur, and mentions comparisons with similar inscriptions found nearby.

Bibliography

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Images

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Editorial Team

Editor: Alessandra Inglese

Principal Investigator: Alessandra Inglese

Funder: CHANGES - Theme 5. Humanities and Cultural Heritage as Laboratories of Innovation and Creativity, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, Associazione Centro di Eccellenza DTC

Alessandra Inglese: original data collection and edition

Valentina Mignosa: encoding, editing metadata and geo data, website content creation, HTML transformation, website design and styling, interactive mapping implementation

Marika Griffo: rubbings digitisation

Simone Lucchetti: rubbings digitisation

Luigi Tessarolo: website construction, design and styling, interactive mapping implementation

Virgilio Costa: methodological and digital consultancy

Publication Details

Authority: ThERA (Theran Epigraphic Rubbings Archive) project

Licence: Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence

Encoding model / validation: EpiDoc encoding model and validation framework adapted from ISicily

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